by Dan Mitchell | Feb 14, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Flat Tax, Government Spending, States, Taxation
The most important referendum in 2019 was the effort to get Colorado voters to eviscerate the Taxpayer Bill of Rights. Fortunately, the people of the Centennial State comfortably rejected the effort to bust the state’s successful spending cap. The most important...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 1, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Trade
Yesterday’s column was my annual end-of-year round-up of the best and worst developments of the concluding year. Today I’ll be forward looking and give you my hopes and fears for the new year, which is a newer tradition that began in 2017 (and continued...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 17, 2019 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
Proponents of bigger government sometimes make jaw-dropping statements. I even have collections of bizarre assertions by both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. What’s especially shocking is when statists twist language, such as when they claim all income is the...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 27, 2019 | Blogs, States, Taxation
If the people who advocate higher taxes really think it’s a good idea to give politicians more cash, why don’t they voluntarily send extra money with their tax returns? Massachusetts actually makes that an easy choice since state tax forms give people the option of...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 13, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, States
When I gave readers an opportunity to select their favorite political cartoonist back in 2013, they picked Michael Ramirez. And I can understand, given the excellent options that I shared (here, here, here, and here). But I now think I overlooked his true masterpiece,...
